According to the Phantom Time Hypothesis, Charlemagne never existed along with 297 years that were just made up. According to German historian Heribert Illig, the year is actually 1720. The Gregorian calendar is a lie. Moreover, a chunk of the Middle Ages was completely made up.
Illig claims that Pope Sylvester II, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII all got together and changed the calendar. It was done to make it seem as if Otto had begun his reign in the millennial year of 1000 AD. His original reign would have been 996. The reason being that 1000 sounded a lot more meaningful than 996. This is also considering AD stands for “anno domini,” or, “the year of the Lord.”
Illig further claims that the trio altered existing documents. They created fraudulent historical events and people in order to back themselves up. He claims that Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne was not, in fact, a real ruler, but simply a King Arthur-type legend. Illig explains that through all of this tampering and forgery, an extra 297 years were added to history. He also points out that mathematical discrepancies between the Julian and Gregorian calendars further complicates things.
Furthermore, Illig claims that Roman architecture in 10th century western Europe is too modern for the time period in which it was supposedly built.
Dr. Hans-Ulrich Niemitz published a paper in 1995 titled “Did the Early Middle Ages Really Exist?” in which he claims they did not.
“Between Antiquity (1 AD) and the Renaissance (1500 AD) historians count approximately 300 years too many in their chronology,” Niemitz wrote. “In other words: the Roman emperor Augustus really lived 1700 years ago instead of the conventionally assumed 2000 years.”
